A woman in Atzbach was murdered by her husband because, in his opinion, she had carried the wrong child with her to safety from their burning house. She had not saved their eight-year-old son, for whom the man had special plans, but had saved their daughter, who was not loved by the husband. When the husband was asked, in the District Court in Wels, what plans he had had for his son, who had been completely consumed by the fire, the husband replied that he had intended him to be an anarchist and a mass murderer of dictatorships and thus a destroyer of the state.

Presence of Mind

PRESENCE OF MIND

Presence of mind was displayed by a man in Rutzenmoos who saved a three-year-old boy from a mad bull, as the Linzer Tagblatt reports. The man, a cement worker employed by the firm of Hatschek, which has for decades furnished employment to thousands of workers and is constantly showing examples of civic-mindedness in the whole area by building children’s homes and hospitals and giving financial support to old-people’s homes and lunatic asylums, is said to have diverted the bull’s attention from the boy with a bright red cardigan. The boy managed to get up and run away while the bull rushed at the man and mauled him so terribly that he died the following day in the Vöcklabruck emergency hospital that had been founded by the firm of Hatschek. The Linzer Tagblatt writes of the fortunate circumstance that the cement worker from Rutzenmoos happened to be wearing the red cardigan that his wife had knitted him for Christmas at precisely the moment at which the bull attacked the boy and had been able to turn the bull’s attention away from the boy and to himself. At the cement worker’s funeral, hundreds of his colleagues were present, and, in the nature of things, as on all such occasions, the management of the firm of Hatschek was there in full force, not to speak of the rest of the population, which always likes to go to such funerals as they substitute for the lack of a local theater with its constant first nights. Today the Linzer Tagblatt has a picture of the boy from Rutzenmoos, a picture of the rescuer’s wife, a picture of the red cardigan that the woman had knitted her husband for Christmas, a picture of the site where the event occurred, and a picture of the bull whose attention had been drawn by the Rutzenmoos cement worker away from the boy from Rutzenmoos and to the cement worker from Rutzenmoos. The vicious bull has, as the Linzer Tagblatt writes, been slaughtered.

Supplemental Income

SUPPLEMENTAL INCOME